Meghan Markle’s romance with Prince Harry has been well documented since their early days together, starting with their first dates in 2016. It appears that a particular ‘dating rule’ may have contributed to their success and helped Meghan transition from a Netflix actress to the Duchess of Sussex as she joined the royal family via The Mirror.
Harry and Meghan began dating in 2016, and they shared details about the early days of their relationship in their Netflix docuseries. Harry recounted how he was late to their first date. Despite his tardiness, they instantly connected and went on to have two more dates before Meghan had to return to Toronto to continue filming additional seasons of “Suits,” the show in which she starred at the time.
Meghan revealed that she requested the second date, as she shared in their docuseries: “I called him that evening and said ‘Look I’m leaving the day after tomorrow, do you want to grab dinner tomorrow night?’ I’m sure he thought it was so forward and American.”
The pair’s third date came weeks later with Meghan flying out to Botswana to join Harry for five days, camping in the wild and getting to know each other away from the world.
Harry explained: “We were really by ourselves, which was crucial to me to make sure that we had a chance to get to know each other.” Harry later said it was during this trip that he knew Meghan was his ‘soulmate.’
Following this trip, Meghan is said to have implemented a ‘two week rule’, which is said to be the secret behind the couple’s courtship and later marriage in 2018. In the Netflix series Harry & Meghan, Harry revealed: “She had a two-week rule, which was very smart, that said we had to see each other in, or around two weeks.”
He then remembered asking his now wife: “How is that even possible with the stuff that I’m doing? I’m not going to be able to travel to see you that much.”However Meghan shared that due to being relatively unknown in the UK, she could travel to Harry to make time for dates. She said: “It was much easier for me to go and see him in the UK. I could still just get on a commercial flight and go and see him under the radar.”
